Friday, May 4, 2007

Annotation #6

School Steroid Use Silent, Rampant

This article is about teens using steroids in the state of Texas. They are not only using it for sports but for impressing their girlfriends or impressing classmates. When coaches to find out about steroid use they don't really confront them. They don't even tell their parents about it. Its almost like they don't care. Why would they sit a key player when they need that player. This article has some what of a positive effect of steroid use. But what there really saying is that teenagers are doing a lot of other bad stuff that is worse then steroids.

Annotation #5

Users only see the big picture

This Article talked about Remy a fake name that told a story about a person that took steroids not for sports. He took the steroids for personal acheivements, and for self esteem. He was also going to take them because he was going to enter a body lifting contest. It also went over a lot of side effects of anabolic steroids. Like acne, male baldness, females developing male characteristics, liver disease, and heart disease.

Thursday, May 3, 2007

I. Introduction
A. Attention-getter
1. Barry Bonds, Sammy Sosa, Mark McGuire, all have something in common. Yeah they are all baseball superstars that have broken many records. But in 2005 Bonds, Sosa, and McGuire were all acused of using steroids.
B. Preview main points
1. Many record holders have been acused of usung steroids while breaking that record. _______________________________________________________________________
2. _______________________________________________________________________
3. _______________________________________________________________________(Transition sentence goes here) C. Thesis statement
1. _______________________________________________________________________ (you may also put the thesis before the preview if you find it to be a better flow for your paper)
II. Body
A. Body paragraph #1 (first proof of your thesis statement)
1. Topic sentence
a. _____________________________________________________________________
2. Supporting details (proof of topic sentence; be specific with details and have enough information)
a. ______________________________________________________________________
b. ______________________________________________________________________
c. ______________________________________________________________________
d. ______________________________________________________________________
e. ______________________________________________________________________
f. ______________________________________________________________________
B. Body paragraph #1 (second proof of your thesis statement)
1. Topic sentence
a. _____________________________________________________________________
2. Supporting details (proof of topic sentence; be specific with details and have enough information)
a. ______________________________________________________________________
b. ______________________________________________________________________
c. ______________________________________________________________________
d. ______________________________________________________________________
e. ______________________________________________________________________
f. ______________________________________________________________________

C. Body paragraph #1 (third proof of your thesis statement)
1. Topic sentence
a. _____________________________________________________________________
2. Supporting details (proof of topic sentence; be specific with details and have enough information)
a. ______________________________________________________________________
b. ______________________________________________________________________
c. ______________________________________________________________________
d. ______________________________________________________________________
e. ______________________________________________________________________
f. ______________________________________________________________________
III. Conclusion
A. Re-state thesis
1. ________________________________________(Transition sentence goes here) B. Review main points
1. _______________________________________________________________________
2. _______________________________________________________________________
3. _______________________________________________________________________(Transition sentence goes here) C. Attention-"goer" (sometimes called the "clincher")
1. _______________________________________________________________________





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Tuesday, April 24, 2007

Annotation #4

Players admit steroids change the game

This article talked about conspersy that poeple with records was on steroids while acheiving them. They took some surveys and asked the public if they should be stripped of their records because of the steroid use. Almost 80% said they should be stripped or be notted about the steroid use. People beleive that they set the records because of steroids. But no one can tell of they used steroids or not.

Monday, April 23, 2007

Annotation #3

Juiced

This article talked about the cyclist Floyd Landis wining the Tour de France and then being tested positive for steroids. He still won the race. This article also talked about kids taking steroids just to get bigger. Some kids are not even taking steroids for sports. Thier just taking it to look bigger and stronger. Alexander G, said that there are other ways of looking better then taking steroids. Like eating habits, and even working out harder.

Annotation #2

Toxic Strngth

This article talked about a short story of a young man almost killing himself because of steroids. He was depressed from the drug and didn't know what to do. They found him on the edge of a high way looking down about to jump. Other then that the article talked about how steroids can make you so much bigger. You can gain up to two pounds of muscle mass a week.

Friday, April 20, 2007

Annotation #1

Steroids- Still fuel Win-At-Any-Cost Attitude

This article talked about some of the hisrty of steroids. Since about 10 years ago when the last survey was taken, steroid use has dropped. Maybe beacuse its harder to detect steroids in athletes or maybe thier just not doing it any more. Athletes are finding ways to almost hide the drug in their system. But the NCAA has came up with a new machine that tests even the slightest amount of steroids in a human body. It can also trace steroid use back to at least two months ago.

Monday, March 19, 2007

RAFT


Over my spring break I did nothing at all. I went to bed at 3:00 in the moring and I woke up at 2:00 in the middle of the day. It was the best spring break I have ever had. Just because I slept the whole spring break and it was awsome. Other then sleeping I went to go see the movie 300. I think it was one of the best movies i have seen. In was going to see it the opening day but it was solf out, so I saw it teh next day. Besides all that i got my lisence a day after i got out of school. I hope third trimester is eassier then second tri. Just because I did bad last trimester.

Tuesday, February 13, 2007

Problem
A big problem up at Mount Eversest is when climbers go to the bathroom. They don't do anything with the waste.

Evidence
When climbers go up they see the waste and don't do anything about it.
Their is more than 100 pounds of waste up on Mount Everest.

Contributing Factors
Because it is so cold up there they cant go for a long time. The only thing they can do is just cover it up. If they do go for a long time they will get frost bite.

Solution
The climbers can ware dipers and go in them. They don't have to go out side in the cold.

Monday, February 12, 2007

RAFT

I think their is a problem with these kids that are fighting and writing grafetti. I think they are doing this because their parents havnt been strict with them. Their parents are afraid of saying no and are letting them do what aveer they want.

A solution for this problem is to just shut down the library until everything settles down. They can either do that or they can get more security and teachers around the library. Either way it might wirk with them.
Problem Solution

Problem
Their are to many kids in the halls at Tartan High School. The halls are to small for this amount of kids.

Evidence
I Know from my own experience. In between classes their is hold ups in the hall because their is to many people.
I have talked to people in the office and they said Tartan is over populated.

Contributing Factors
One contributing factor is the school is to small.
another one is their isn't enough time in between classes so people get jammed up.

Solution
You can either build a new school, or build on to the school. but both of them cost a lot of money that Tartan doesn't have.




Monday, February 5, 2007